New iterative reconstruction techniques for cardiovascular computed tomography: how do they work, and what are the advantages and disadvantages?

RC Nelson, S Feuerlein, DT Boll - Journal of cardiovascular computed …, 2011 - Elsevier
The radiation doses associated with diagnostic CT scans has recently come under scrutiny.
In the process of developing protocols with lower doses, it has become apparent that images …

Cardiac MDCT in children: CT technology overview and interpretation

HW Goo - Radiologic Clinics, 2011 - radiologic.theclinics.com
The introduction of multidetector row CT (MDCT) has substantially increased its clinical use
for cardiac CT scanning in children over the past decade. 1–5 Fast scan speeds and …

Dose reduction in abdominal computed tomography: intraindividual comparison of image quality of full-dose standard and half-dose iterative reconstructions with dual …

MS May, W Wüst, M Brand, C Stahl… - Investigative …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We sought to evaluate the image quality of iterative reconstruction in image
space (IRIS) in half-dose (HD) datasets compared with full-dose (FD) and HD filtered back …

Lowering the dose in head CT using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction

K Kilic, G Erbas, M Guryildirim, M Arac… - American journal …, 2011 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: While CT has found wide use in medical practice, it is also
a substantial source of radiation exposure and is associated with an increased lifetime risk …

Detection of a coronary artery vessel wall: performance of 0.3 mm fine-cell detector computed tomography—a phantom study

M Yamada, M Jinzaki, Y Tanami… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether experimental fine-cell detector computed
tomography with a 0.3125 mm cell (0.3 mm cell CT) can improve the detection of coronary …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular Imaging 2010 in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

RA Costa, JHC Reiber, FJ Rybicki… - … International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
In the year 2010, the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging received very
interesting contributions dealing with a wide variety of imaging modalities. Papers came …

Comparison of iterative and filtered back-projection image reconstruction techniques: evaluation of heavily calcified vessels with coronary CT angiography

M Renker, UJ Schoepf, M Weininger, JM Kerl, R Bauer… - 2011 - epos.myesr.org
Purpose Filtered Back Projection (FBP) has been the traditional method for CT image
reconstruction. However, FBP has limitations for delineating structural contours in coronary …

[引用][C] Technical Steps Needed to Achieve Routine Sub-mSv CT Scanning: Report from the Summit on Management of Radiation Dose in CT

NC Durham